Mannequin said
As you’ve ticked yourself as an Exclusive Author, you’ll probably want to disable the link from your profile that enable people to purchase it off your own website for $49.00

Can I sell unapproved themes on my own website?

If you’ve sold an item before it’s approved to ThemeForest as an exclusive author then you’re breaching the contract. You can only distribute a theme on ThemeForest as an exclusive author if it hasn’t been sold anywhere else.

Caps were needed as this same template format keeps cropping up every few days from people getting rejected and wondering why

Slider = check

columns of text = check

big footer with columns = check

gah!!!

Totally agreed. I haven’t been here for a long time, but already see a lot of repetition in theme designs. If the reviewer says you have to be unique, maybe the key is to change the overall ‘lookandfeel’ of the theme before changing any less appealing details.